[GTALUG] Thunderbird weirdness

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Malgosia Askanas <maskanas at pair.com>

| What do you think could be causing a message I received, whose source looks
| like this:

As a user of a plain-text Mail User Agent, I'm an innocent bystander in 
the fights between GUI MUAs.

I would have a deep look at the headers of the messages.  I bet that there 
is some misunderstanding between the two ends.  For example, your mail had 
this header:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed"

Lots of mail is still encoded in other charsets.  For example Windows-12* 
(* means some digits that I don't remember).  Confusion can lead to lots 
of funny results.

You could look at the raw message but that has a bit of a learning curve.  
I bet those A characters are really part of some magic character sequence, 
starting with a byte >= 128 or < 32.